A Message from our Chairman,
After quite a bit of research within the cricket community during our Planning phase, a unanimous view prevailed that a programme to overcome the gaps that currently exist within the club structure is necessary, one of the programmes we agreed would be to explore a link with the Danish Cricket Association!
Following discussions with people involved within the club and are own personal experiences over the last couple of seasons it was agreed that the objective of this programme should be:
- To work in partnership with the relevant people (within the Danish Cricket Association)
- To implement an organised Development Programme for talented players from Denmark to play within The Hills Cricket Club, on the best grass wickets on the island of Ireland which will enable them to enhance their talent, technical and tactical abilities they have already developed.
In order to achieve this objective The Hills Cricket Club in partnership with Danish Cricket will develop The Programme which aims:
- To identify, develop and evaluate players who would play at the required level in our Division 1 league with our 1st team.
- To enable emerging talent within Denmark cricket, the chance to develop all of their capacities to their full potential by playing with our 2nd team also to further develop playing on grass wickets, these players maybe some of your younger squad members who might be on regional squads within your country!
- To provide all players that come over to The Hills Cricket Club with a more challenging level of training and development, breaking the training down as we do in WHOLE- PART-WHOLE method which further enhances Learning by doing!
- To provide the players with the opportunity to train in structured and quality environment, this has been an area which we as a club have identified as crucial for success…….Good Planning/Organisational and Implementation within our sessions is key for the future and achieving all the goals/ targets we set throughout the club.
- To provide a higher quantity and quality of player for our Adult squads and Youth squads, representative and international sides.
- To improve the quality of players Adult(Male/Female) and (Boys /Girls) across all levels of the game of cricket within our club through your players linking in with our Coaches to provide quality Coaching sessions through creating a good learning environment for all to develop both players and coaches.
- To provide and formalise a link with Denmark which potentially could see an exchange programme for Coaching workshops with our Coaches and your Coaches coming together to learn further from each other,plus the full use of our state of the art facilities to enable you to have International squad sessions which would enable you to train and eat at the venue, which would be very beneficial.
In addition bringing underage squads on tour within Denmark and obviously bringing squads from your country over to The Hills Cricket Club which would see them play games and to take part in Coaching sessions with our senior panel of Coaches!
It is our belief that The Hills Cricket Club’s merging with the Danish Cricket Association would be of huge benefit to both parties. It would have a very positive and long lasting effect on the Development of Cricket in our club. The future will see continual standards rise and will eventually result in a higher standard of player playing within the club…at Rep. level/Intl level and also at our grassroots level which is really important to sustain our club in the future.
We look forward to this link with Danish Cricket for many years to come.
Yours in Cricket,
Kind Regards,
Paul Smyth,
Chairman of The Hills Cricket Club.
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The The 2016 season is finally under way and we hope it will be a very memorable and exciting one for all of our teams. This weekend sees a a festival of Cricket coming to The Vineyard with the visit of the Danish National Team. And we hope as many of you as possible will come out to support. It all kicks off in The Vineyard at 12.00 pm Saturday. All games are 50 overs. Bar will be open! BBQ fired up and the sweet smell of Summer in the air,well almost, (Una Carey has advised not to put the winter Geansai away just yet) so we will have a curry on offer too. And if the Cricket hasn’t tired you all out on Saturday please stick around for our All star Mr and Mrs competition, how much or how little do you know about your partner, well we will soon find out. We do it all again on Sunday without the Mr and Mrs and you may want to bring your own sandwiches as we are giving our BBQ man and curry chef the day off!
Full list of Fixtures for Danish visit are as follows
Friday 22nd of April……..Game V Northern Knights…Venue: Balbriggan CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Saturday 23rd of April…..Game V The Hills…Venue: The Hills CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Sunday 24th of April……Game V Leinster Lightning …Venue: The Hills CC. (Start time 12.00.pm)
Thank you to Everyone for supporting and helping make The Hills the best cricket club in the world…(Probably)
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We like to do things a little different in The Hills. So Please come along to “Afternoon Tea in the Morning” on Sunday 1st May at 10.00 am, its 5 Euro per person and we will be having a mini cake sale too. All Welcome! so bring a friend or two! For Tea! Chats and Craic!
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We are excited to announce we are launching a competition for all members up to the age of 18 to help us find a club mascot. We want YOU! to create a mascot that best represents our club. The design is completely up to you and you have to give him or her a name. The Mascot will feature on our website and Facebook page and in time we hope to have them at the ground on match day. So lets get creative people! Please find full details below! Closing date for Entries 6th May.
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Calling all Mr and Mrs and or Fun loving couples. Would you say you know your mate, main squeeze, or man. Well put your name down for a night of fun and craic as the TV show Mr and Mrs comes to the hills on Saturday 23rd of April. All welcome to join in!
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We are delighted to announce that the Danish National Team will be helping The Hills kick off our 2016 Season in The Vineyard.
When the Danes came back in the 1980’s, they stole our Harp! but im sure most of you are too young to remember, so you’ll have to look up youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiySRDUvgo
The Danes visit us on the 21st till 24th of April culminating in some mouthwatering fixtures while they are here……and we will as a club be officially linking up with the Danish Cricket Federation to further improve our coaching skills while we will also be involved in a player exchange programme, very exciting arrangement for all concerned.
Full list of Fixtures for Danish visit are as follows
Friday 22nd of April……..Game V Northern Knights…Venue: Balbriggan CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Saturday 23rd of April…..Game V The Hills…Venue: The Hills CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Sunday 24th of April……Game V Leinster Lightning …Venue: The Hills CC. (Start time 12.00.pm)
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Calling all superstars in our Youth Ranks!
Youth Registration will take place in the club house from 7pm – 8pm (or slightly longer if need be) on Thursday 14 April, So come along, bring a friend, and make some great new friends. If your a seasoned pro or new to the game and trying it for the first time no problem! we cater for all. Cricket is great game to play, you’ll have loads of fun and keep fit at the same time. We have some of the best coaches in the country to help you improve your cricket skills and you will be playing for one of The Best Clubs in The WORLD!!!! So spread the word.
We also have an exciting competition we hope to launch on the night- more news of that to follow in the coming days
Big Thank you from all at The Hills Cricket Club, look forward to seeing you on Registration Night
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BREAKING NEWS!!! to report from the Hills on 1st April 2016…… Freddie Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen where seen leaving the club house late last night after meeting with the Management Committee and agreeing to play for the club for the 2016 season. Both are said to be extremely excited to finally get to play on one of the best grounds in the cricket world with one of its greatest teams. “when your a kid growing up all you dream about is playing on the wickets at the Vineyard” said Flintoff, “its a dream come true, what a beautiful ground and such a well maintained field, I couldn’t believe it when I stepped out onto it for the first time” added Pieteresen. Meanwhile in other Hills news Max Sorensen has decided to quit cricket and pursue his love of poetry on a full time basis. “Those close to me know poetry is my real passion, cricket doesn’t give me the same buzz as poetry does” Eh erm! okay Max, whatever floats the boat. Max hopes to have a book out in time for Christmas and will be doing a world tour of Fingal to promote it. We wish him all the best……. All of this exciting news brought to you from THCC news desk on 1st April 2016!!!!
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To all our members
If u are playing adult cricket in Leinster this season you must register or re register in most cases.
Just follow the link below and remember this year you will need a current photo of yourself.
https://registrations.cricketleinster.ie/auth/landing
With the hour going forward our first outdoor adult nets training starts.
Tuesday 6.30pm Ist & 2nds
Wednesday 6.30pm 3rd & 4ths.
Thursday 6.30pm Ist & 2nds.
All new members welcome.
It is important to note the clubs playing subs are now due and a very strict ‘No Pay No Play’ policy will be used this year.
Contact Luke Clinton with payment or leave a message on our facebook page or you can contact us through our webmail on this site
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We are delighted to announce The Hills will be hosting a Darts Night in the Club on Saturday 2nd April @ 8:30pm with former World Champion Andy “The Viking” Fordham and Irish No.1 Mick “The Magnet” McGowan. Tickets are €10 and are available from Cliff on
086-3050451. Ticket price includes entry and raffle ticket for a chance to win a game against one of the star players or a signed dartboard.
All Throwers are welcome. €50 entry or sponsorship required to throw but entry is free!
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